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generative

generative

1 7.5
About computer systems that make new images or text by learning from examples
  • adjective
  • /ˈdʒɛnərətɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : generativo
  • Generative models in artificial intelligence can generate entirely new images based on learned patterns.

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Examples

  • Jensen Wong, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, announced on their earnings call this Wednesday that generative AI has hit a tipping point.

  • These are models known as generative adversarial networks.

  • Even in design, we're starting to see more people use generative systems.

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  • Now this is all generative as well.

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  • And this is really, this is really what generative AI is about is it's creating new things, text, image and now video.

  • But Google also now has like a generative AI search.

  • How does generative AI change how social media feels in the future?

  • I used to use a particular generative piece for all of my sound and light installations for many, many years.

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  • Chat generative AI might never get past the hallucination problem.

  • Generative models, such as Bayesian networks, learn a joint probability distribution over the process, generating both the inputs and outputs.

    Academic text (2013)

Antonyms

45 3.8

Not moving or changing over time

Compounds

generative grammar
  • Specialized
8.4

A theory that explains how rules make all correct sentences and shows their structure

A creative thought that leads to new ideas or work

generative learning
  • Specialized
7.9

Learning where students make links between new information and what they already know

generative learning
  • Specialized
8.1

Computer method that teaches a program to create new data like images

How Generative

generative
  • Specialized
1 7.5
creative
772 3.3
productive
293 3.5
noncreative
1 5.1
nongenerative
  • Specialized
9.9

Surface Forms

generative positive

Morphology

generative = generate (transparent) = generate + ive

The technical AI sense is a direct extension of 'having the capacity to produce' (i.e., models that produce outputs), so the morphological relation is straightforward.

Etymology

Generative comes from the Latin root generare, which means 'to produce', and it is the same idea you find in generate and generator. In AI and computing, a generative system is a computer tool that makes new images, text, or sounds by learning patterns from examples, so it produces new content rather than only repeating old data.